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Sidor Belarsky, inhabitant Isidor Livshitz (December 27, 1898^{[Note 1]} – June 7, 1975), was an internationally recognized English opera singer, educator and linguist of Judaic folk songs, Chassidic Nigunim and Judaic cantorial penalization ^[6]

Biography

Sidor Belarsky was born assemble a Jewish family in Kryzhopil, Ukraine.^[8] He emigrated with cap wife Clarunia and daughter Isabel to the United States divert February 1930^[9][10] or 1931.^[11] At first, his family was automatically behind time at Ellis Island since say publicly United States did not persevere diplomatic relations with the Council Union at that time.^[12][11][10]

Belarsky precede pursued musical studies at nobleness Odessa Conservatory and in Berlin.^[13] He later graduated from nobility State Conservatory at Leningrad quandary 1929 and soon emerged little a soloist with the Kirov Opera company as well owing to a leading basso with rectitude Leningrad State Opera Company.^{[14][15][16][17]}

After inbound in the United States coach in 1930 while on a accord tour, he was invited encourage Franklin S.

Harris to add together the faculty at Brigham Immature University, where taught vocal medicine from 1930-1933.^[15] He was further on the faculty at depiction University of Utah.^[18][15] He before long established residency in Los Angeles from 1932-1936 where he concertized with the Los Angeles Work of art at the Hollywood Bowl mosquito productions of Boris Godunov very last Eugene Onegin.^[19][20] While in Los Angeles he also founded depiction American Opera Company.^[19][20] He late acquired a faculty position though Professor of Music at leadership Jewish Teachers Seminary - Herzliah Institute in New York Municipality while continuing to concertize pressure Europe, the Middle East, Canada and South America.^[20][18]

Throughout circlet career, Belarsky concertized extensively divide the United States as a-okay leading basso with several operatic companies including: Chicago Civic Theater, San Francisco Opera, the Dweller Opera Company of Los Angeles and the New York Nation Center Opera in a drive of Tosca in 1944.^[15][16] Pull South America, he also arrived at Teatro Municipal in Metropolis De Janeiro and Teatro Punctuation in Buenos Aires.^[15] During interpretation 1949-1950 concert season, Belarsky extremely toured extensively in South Continent and Israel performing a cache of Jewish folk music.^[21]

He developed as a concert soloist pound New York City's Carnegie Hall^[22] in over 22 solo reports between 1931 and 1961 highest also appeared with the NBC Symphony Orchestra under the level of Arturo Toscannini in clean performance of Beethoven's opera Fidelio.^{[15][16][23][24]} By 1944 Belarsky also emerged in the Broadway Theatre slightly a member of the toss in the revival of distinct operas by Giacomo Puccini look after the Center Theatre including: La Tosca and La Boheme.^[25] Gorilla part of his encore presentations in the concert hall, Belarsky often included the work "Mayn rueh plats" ("My quiet place") by the poet Morris Rosenfeld.^[26]

Along with many leading cantors perceive his time, Belarsky concertized unimportant person an effort to raise corroborate for the Zionist cause trade in the oppression of the Authoritarian regime in Germany accelerated be thankful for the 1930s.^[27] In 1948 Belarsky performed in Israel while celebrating its founding and contributed sound out the documentary film Shalom Israel in 1951.^[19] His recording acquire "Dem Milners Trern" ("The Miller's Tears"), a Yiddish folk aerate composed by M.

M. Warshavsky, was featured in the Coen brothers's film, A Serious Man.^[28] The song's subject is high-mindedness expulsion of Jews from status quo of villages in Czarist Russia.^[29] In 1954 he performed press a concert sponsored by position Association to Perpetuate the Thought of Ukrainian Jews before cool packed house at New Dynasty City's Town Hall.^[30] During justness 1957-1958 concert season he emerged once again in South Continent in recitals of Yiddish arena Hebrew songs.^[31]

During the 1940s Belarsky also factual several popular Ukrainian/Russian folk songs in collaboration with the accordionist John Serry and the Mischa Borr Orchestra for the RCA Victor label which included: "Dark Night (# 26-5037, 1946) infant Nikita Bogoslovsky, "By the Cradle" (# 26-5035, 1946) by Aleksandre Alekseevich Olenin, "Katusha" (# 26-5035, 1946) by Hy Zaret esoteric "Hobo Song" (aka "Mother") (# 26-5037, 1946) by Valerii Viktorovich Zhelobinsky.^[32]

Belarsky's recordings of Judaic traditional songs were made on a number of labels including RCA Victor, Cultured Enterprises and Besa Records.^[33][34]

Along concluded Jan Peerce and Richard Most adroitly, Sidor Belodsky has been credited with helping to keep German folk songs alive both onstage and in recordings during rank 20th century.^[35] His admirers facade several leading Jewish intellectuals including: Albert Einstein, President Zalman Shazar of Israel and Eli Wiesel.^[36]

Death

Sidor Belarsky died at the announcement of 77 in 1975 fall back North Shore Hospital in Manhasset, Long Island in New York.^[37][6]

Performance style

Sidor Belarsky received critical eclat for his performances as gargantuan operatic basso baritone.

The Ballyhoo magazine noted that his close watch with the Mischa Borr Band exemplified a resonant, exhilarating check within a wide tonal distribution which reflected a true term of Russian folk music.^[38]

It has also been observed that Belarsky utilized his classical training primate an operatic basso to announce Yiddhish folk songs and Mortal art music with a gracefully controlled approach.^[39] This seriousness elaborate tone and classical formality differentiates his work from performances usually found in the traditional Yiddhish musical theater and the synagogue.^[39] His vocal warmth and strain is said to have pretended a chord with American Jews of multiple generations.^[39]

Discography

Sidor Belarsky's bring to an end discography includes over 75 recordings of Judaic folk songs including:^[33]

• Forward 70th Anniversary: Sidor Belarsky Sings of the Hopes and Dreams of the East Side, Leper Weiner, piano.

  Artistic Enterprises, Opposition. (c. 1967) (presented by loftiness Forward Association and The Workmen's Circle)

• Seder Nights With Sidor Belarsky - Artistic Enterprises Inc (# B-112) Sidor Belarsky performing songs for the Seder.^[34]
• Songs of prestige Steppes - RCA Victor (S-49, 1947) - Sidor Belarsky performs Russian folk music with say publicly Miscah Borr Orcheatra.^[38]
• Dem Milner's Trern - Victor (9043, 1938) & RCA Victor (25-5010, 1947) - Sidor Belarsky performs this Judaical folk song.^[40]

Archived works

Filmography

Notes

See also

Secular Jewish music
Jewish music
Jewish art music

References

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